John

Chapter 17

1 Jesus said these things , then lifting up his eyes to heaven , he said , " Father , the time has come . Glorify your Son , that your Son may also glorify you ;

2 even as you gave him authority over all flesh , so he will give eternal life to all whom you have given him .

3 This is eternal life , that they should know you , the only true God , and him whom you sent , Jesus Christ .

4 I glorified you on the earth . I have accomplished the work which you have given me to do .

5 Now , Father , glorify me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world existed .

6 " I revealed your name to the people whom you have given me out of the world . They were yours , and you have given them to me . They have kept your word .

7 Now they have known that all things whatever you have given me are from you ,

8 for the words which you have given me I have given to them ; and they received them , and knew for sure that I came from you . They have believed that you sent me .

9 I pray for them . I don’ t pray for the world , but for those whom you have given me , for they are yours .

10 All things that are mine are yours , and yours are mine , and I am glorified in them .

11 I am no more in the world , but these are in the world , and I am coming to you . Holy Father , keep them through your name which you have given me , that they may be one , even as we are .

12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name . I have kept those whom you have given me . None of them is lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled .

13 But now I come to you , and I say these things in the world , that they may have my joy made full in themselves .

14 I have given them your word . The world hated them because they are not of the world , even as I am not of the world .

15 I pray not that you would take them from the world , but that you would keep them from the evil one .

16 They are not of the world , even as I am not of the world .

17 Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

18 As you sent me into the world , even so I have sent them into the world .

19 For their sakes I sanctify myself , that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.

20 " Not for these only do I pray , but for those also who will believe in me through their word ,

21 that they may all be one ; even as you , Father , are in me , and I in you , that they also may be one in us ; that the world may believe that you sent me .

22 The glory which you have given me , I have given to them , that they may be one , even as we are one ,

23 I in them , and you in me , that they may be perfected into one , that the world may know that you sent me and loved them , even as you loved me .

24 Father , I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am , that they may see my glory which you have given me , for you loved me before the foundation of the world .

25 Righteous Father , the world hasn’ t known you , but I knew you ; and these knew that you sent me .

26 I made known to them your name , and will make it known ; that the love with which you loved me may be in them , and I in them ."